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Questions from a Canadian Teacher

  • 26-11-2013 11:14pm
    #1
    EilisMD
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    Hello,

    I am a teacher in Ontario, Canada and have taught for almost 25 years. I am hoping I can use this forum to ask some questions of the teaching profession in Ireland, as I am curious about the similarities and differences. I teacher Cooperative Education, for example, and am wondering if there is Co-op in Irish secondary schools. If so, how does it work?

    Thanks,
    Beth


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  • #2
    spurious
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    Can you describe what Co-operative education entails and we can see does it match anything we do?


  • #3
    EilisMD
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    Sorry, I should have done that in my original post! We have Cooperative Education usually in grades 11-12, where students can get 1-4 credits in a semester in the workplace. And this is not necessarily only in vocational situations. For example, a university bound student can do Co-op and have a placement with a school teacher, a lawyer or a doctor etc.


  • #4
    spurious
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    It sounds like shadowing or work experience.

    We have work experience modules in Transition Year (an optional course for age 16 or so following the first State exam). Many students might 'shadow' a person in a legal or medical field, largely depending on their parents' contact network to be honest. The TY work experience does not count for marks towards an exam and was never intended to. TY as a course puts much more emphasis on the development of the person.

    There is also work experience in a programme called the Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme (an option within the largely academic Leaving Certificate course). It is part of a portfolio that makes up 60% of the final 'Links' grade. http://www.pdst.ie/node/2199

    We also have a more vocational 'hands on' Leaving Certificate called the Leaving Cert. Applied which has four mandatory Work Experience modules within it. These all count for credits towards the final grade as part of a Vocational Preparation course.
    http://lca.slss.ie/resource_category/view/61.html


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